Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-22
Miss Genie Watkins Passes Away Sur
rounded by Her Parents, Her
Betrothed and Friends.
The Inquest Conducted with Great
Seerecy-The Detectives Believed
To Have Clew-Many RumOrs.
Miss Bostick on the Road to Recoyery-sh
Remembers Being Awakened by
Her Companions struggles.
THE GAINESVILLE TRAGEDY.

/ W CCutSudy IuOIuLLSJ OCCURRED LQlS luOIu-
/ ing at S:55. After over forty-eight hours Of
| prolonged suffering death came at last to
her relief. The best medical attention to
be had in the city was given her, and
| kind and loving hands did all in their
/ power to alleviate the suferings of her
last hours on earth. Her lifelesS body was
clothed for the grave and encased in 9
neat rosewood coffin st the house of her
aunt. Mrs. Willis, and will be
carried to Dallas tomorrow for
interment. 1t was the intention OF Cap
tain and Mrs. Watkins to take their
daughters remains to Dallas this morn
ing, but, scCedDg to the request of the
officers to wait until tomorrow until an
inquest could be held, they
GAVE Up THE PLAN.
The inquest over the body of Miss
Watkins has been going on all day, at the
BOstiCk house, where the dreadful tragedy
occurred. Justice Holman conducted
the inquest, as under a law recently gone
into force the cOEOner's Jury is done
away with. The investigation was con-
Quoted with the greatest secrecy, no one
except the Justice, the County Attorney,
and the Sheriff, being allowed in the
room, where each witness was examined
separately as soon SIS his or her
testimony was gotten through with
Fifteen witnesses were examined, and
late this afternoon the Justice returned >
verdict that Miss Genie Watkins came
to her desth, at 3:55 this morning, from
the effects of blows struck with some
edged instrument in the hands Of some
person or persons unknown on the morn
ing Of July Is.
The officers who heard the testimony
at the coroner's inquest are very retlCent, |
and, although they say frankly that
they have no tangible cIew 10 /
go or, it is plainly apparent /
that their hopes OF unearthing the mis- /
Creant or misCreants have increased, T
rather than diminished within the past |
twenty-fOur hours.
1t Is now thought by parties who are in
O position to know, that if an experienced |
detective is brought here within the next
few days, that he will be cole to sift the
matter TO the bottom and unearth the
guilty. 1t is reported that there are
half q dozen or go detectives IN the city
ct the present time a. work on the case,
although if they are here they are very
rightly keeping their
IDENTITY AND MOVEMENTS
form their work. The subscription for
the reward was circulated again to-day,
ard almost $500 additional subscribed.
The determination to leave no stone I'M
turned to uncover the sCOundrel, seems
to grow stronger every hour, and no
effort will be spared to put the neck of
the perpetrator of the outrage within the
moose.
thousand and one wild rumors have
been in circulation on the streets
for the past few days, anu the
woods have been full of amateur
detectives. The Tumors when traced to
their source would end in nothing. It
has been circulated on the streets extern
siveiy that Miss Watkins before her death
gave the name of the assailent The
truth of the matter is that Miss Watkins
did not have lucid interval from the
time she was injured, and that she did not
speak more than three words at any one
time and then only in response to direct
questions put to her by her friends around
tie bedside. She did give name, but she
gave several instead Of one, and
the names sac did give were given when
asked: "Wss 1t so and so2n The poor
girl was under the influence of op!stes
during the whole time, and seemed to De Z
impelled by en- irresistible desire to an :
swer almost every question asked her
IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
The piece Of iron piping that YVES found
IN the B0stiC6 garden yesterday morning
and was thought to be bloody, turns out
to have only been rusty, and what might
have been Q good Clew was rendered
worthless by this discovery.
1t has been reported that crazy man
has bee2 seen around town this week,
and the police have been on the lookout {
for him, in order to make MIN account Tor !
bis whereabouts on Tuesday night, but
they have no: yet succeeded in doing So
II is rumored here this afternoon that I
the officers have the guilty man spotted {
and that they are only waiting until few c
lays have passed by in order to effect au /
arrest. This rumOr is having wide Circu- s
alton and is being passed from lip to lip, g
1ut most exhaustive inquiry fails to reveal I
'ry foundation for it.
Miss BostiCk has been doing well all s
isy, and the indications are now more t
NvOrable than ever that she b
WILL GET WELL.
Her memory seems to be somewhat
stronger than it Wss yesterday, and she i
emembers having been awakened by the d
struggles of Miss Watkins Just before she I
yss struck herself. 1t is hoped that when t
he gets we'll she will be enabled to throw O
ONE light upon the darkness that still 5
langs like pail over the whole affair. 4
Captain E. T. Morris and wife, uncle t
nd aunt of Miss Bostick, arrived from b
ne Indian Territory last night, whence o
hey had been summoned by telegraph, r
nd are now lending g helping hand in u
he work of nursing Miss Bostick. Fl
a RUNIoR AT TERRELL. s
peclal TO the Gazette. y
TERRELL, TEX, July Ij.-It was re- p
orted here to-day that the perpetrator of U
ne foul deed at Gainesville had been Il
aptured st Hawkins, and would be on
ne O'Clock train. A large crowd Of
ur citizens gathered around the depot to
ct q glimpse of the prisoner. T
TEE FEELING AT DALLAS.
peCial to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Ten, July 15.-News was re- ,,
eiyed early this morning Of the death Of :
llss Gena Watkins at Gainesville While Il
BE profoundest sorrow prevails over the N
lournful and horrible circumstances of b
ne murder, end the greatest sympathy is h
ntertained for the bereaved fsmiIy-pa- Ct
ants robbed Of their only child, and be- T
-othed OF her who was soon TO forsake ST
ithcr sud mother and cIeave only unto CT
is yet a feeling Of relief in the W
cath. The mutilation was so terrible r
nat friends seem to prefer the perfect tc
mage in memory to the disfigured fea- OF
4 res in Tnslitv NO+hiuu in vears hos IN